Tuesday, 6 February 2018

Live, laugh, loathe.

I detest the little home touches people have.
Detailing the different ways love can be explained.
Can love be truly represented in cross-stitch, or an acrostic?

Let's
Overuse
Verbs
Everyone!

Etched in to the cave of the Neanderthal basic bitch are the words: live, laugh, love.
I doubt much has chaged, they're still into clubbing.
Shoving any old shit on the wall.
They have plaques that quote Marilyn Monroe or Oscar Wilde, or various ways to overstate the importance of Prosecco.
They go to great lengths to demonstrate they aren't vapid, rapidly crapping on a once arid wall, mounting mantras and counting on them making each other valid.
Pallid, recycled, and done to death, I wonder if they ever get duplicates, that they keep for best.
What's so wrong with keeping shit in your head?
And when did 'think for yourself' become Live, laugh, love instead.
that's how you have to express love?
If that's the case, then I'm not in love.
I see it differently.
Weekends are love.
Box-sets and bedsocks.
Ikea then chip shop.
Pub grub, ticket stubs, Back rubs, treetop ewoks, and Yub nub.
Love is action, love is a feeling.
Giving it words is to give it a ceiling.
Love is more than what is said.
I'm not in love, I'm in bed.